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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FYI: usability
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:37:14 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0db81e1a-87f6-4e82-9620-ddf417604d7e@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 410fdd94-a453-4979-b113-aa96e573dc90@p9g2000vbl.googlegroups.com

On Jul 31, 9:20 am, skyspace <aart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 10:25 am, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > recently ran into this guy:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_%28usability_consultant%29
>
> > interesting. I think emacs could use some advice there.

> Indeed nice.
> and interesting idea.
> How you would start?

after reading some of the criticism links, i think that guy is
somewhat kooky. His user interface expertise is mostly web only i
think ...

As for emacs... i think there are few user interface changes emacs
could use. Emacs 23, released yesterday, has visual line arrow key
movement and highlight text selection, which are great. There are few
i think emacs could go after. e.g. have typing or delete key replace
selection automatically (delete-selection-mode). This comes naturally
when you have text selection on.

For those interested, please see

• The Modernization of Emacs
  http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-07-31 16:20 ` FYI: usability skyspace
2009-07-31 20:37   ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-08-01  2:01     ` Byung-Hee HWANG
2009-08-01  9:44       ` Xah Lee

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